@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social
Post #2186150
2023-05-15 16:42 UTC
Replies (11)
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@Gojira1000@mas.to 2023-05-15 16:48
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social My theory is that as Bluesky gets rolling a lot of the loud morons will go there and it'll be nicer here.
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@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 16:49
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social At least if everyone else defederates, I can see your pictures! :D
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@Pheneatis@mstdn.ca 2023-05-15 16:53
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social One of the problems is that most mods/admins are volunteers on Mastodon. On our instance, we have suspended over 1000 accounts in spam so far from mastodon.social. And the first 500 were done by hand, one by one. We haven't defederated, but it's tempting sometimes. We neglected work that one morning, it was stressful and awful. It also feels unfair to smaller instances that people get to automatically subscribe with mastodon.social on the app.
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@nbomb@mas.to 2023-05-15 16:59
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social does this also have anything to do with the change to on-boarding? I guess it was too much to expect that this platform would be free of humourless scolds 😅😅
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@Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 17:00
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I watched this yesterday. It applies to this situation as well. 'Democracy is among the greatest virtues that humankind has evolved over this millennia, a blessing with all its many imperfections. But it cannot work in a vacuum of ideas institutions and a larger popular acceptance of what it entails to govern within a democratic but constitutional system. A successful democracy calls for a deep set patience with its imperfections' Shekhar Gupta https://youtu.be/0boy9JdZfWE?t=276
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@mwyman@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 17:13
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social the idea of defederating instances feels like it’s living in an idealized world where instances have at most a dozen accounts, mostly all knowing each other personally in which case “this instance is all nazis” might literally be true. Maybe some folks wish that was the fediverse world we live in, but we don’t.
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@z3r0fox@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 17:38
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I joined mastodon.social in 2017. It would be fine if they halted signups again and I have an alt account on another cool instance in case this server ever goes down but anyone trying to bully me into switching can eat a bag of dicks
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@Jerry@hear-me.social 2023-05-15 17:43
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I agree with everything that you've written
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@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 17:43
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I just told someone yesterday who was said that people should leave mastodon.social because "so many instances are defederating from it" I told them that was like starting your own email service and expecting people to join after you tell them you don't federate with Gmail or Hotmail. I also told them that instead of telling people to leave their instance, why not suggest that they encourage their admis to do better and to listen to the issues that smaller instance bring up?
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@ianRobinson@mastodon.social 2023-05-15 18:01
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social Agreed. I’ve zero plans to move off this instance.
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@mike@thecanadian.social 2023-05-15 18:45
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social Honsetly you're caught up in admin drama. If you are and you don't like it, I suggest using the mute and mute boosts options liberally. Now to the issue. Of course its moronic to defederate from mastodon.social over spam. I'm an instance admin and I've never heard this suggested even even once. I'm thinking you're caught up in some drama that you need to carve out of your timeline. I also think the danger of any instance of consequence defederating is low to zero.